No significant relief from Delhi air pollution in sight – Landfill fire rages as city chokes – Students march to demand cleaner air

By Nick Perry, with additional writing by Muneeza Naqvi 15 November 2017 NEW DELHI (Associated Press) – Hundreds of students marched Wednesday in India’s capital to demand action to improve the city’s toxic air.New Delhi has been wrapped in a choking haze for much of the past week. The smog did lift a little in […]

Photo of baby elephant on fire after being attacked by mob wins international award – “The calf screams in confusion and fear as the fire licks at her feet”

By May Bulman 8 November 2017 (The Independent) – An image of a baby elephant fleeing a mob that has just set it on fire has won top entry in a pan-Asian wildlife photography competition, the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2017. It shows the calf and its mother running across a road close to a […]

Fossil fuel emissions hit record high after unexpected growth in 2017

By Pep Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré, Glen Peters, Robbie Andrew, Rob Jackson, and Vanessa Haverd 13 November 2017 (The Conversation) – Global greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels and industry are on track to grow by 2% in 2017, reaching a new record high of 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, according to the 2017 Global […]

Image of the Day: Satellite of view of smoke blanketing northern India, 8 November 2017

By Adam Voiland 8 November 2017(NASA) – Since mid-October 2017, smoke from crop fires in Punjab and Haryana has blown across northern India and Pakistan. With the arrival of cooler weather in November, the smoke mixed with fog, dust, and industrial pollution to form a particularly thick haze. A lack of wind, which usually helps […]

Just 10 rivers may be to blame for millions of tons of ocean plastic

By Tim Wallace 12 October 2017 (Cosmos) – Just 10 rivers – eight of them in Asia – may be responsible for dumping almost four million tonnes of plastic into the seas every year.Calculating with precision the source and amount of plastic trash in the oceans is difficult; estimates tend to cover wide ranges. Previous […]

How India’s battle with climate change could determine all of our fates – “India is the frontline state”

By Damian Carrington and Michael Safi 6 November 2017 RAJGHAT (The Guardian) – “It’s a lucky charm,” says Rajesh, pointing to the solar-powered battery in his window that he has smeared with turmeric as a blessing. “It has changed our life.” He lives in Rajghat, a village on the border of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh […]

It’s time to rethink the relationship between borders and global warming

By Reece Jones 7 November 2017(Undark) – After 300 years of continuous human settlement, Hurricane Irma destroyed everything on the island of Barbuda and forced the relocation of its more than 1,600 residents, demonstrating that climate-induced migration is no longer a future possibility, but a present-day reality. A week and a half later, Hurricane Maria […]

India to spray capital from on high amid deepening smog emergency – Chief Minister calls capital a “gas chamber” as conditions expected to worsen over weekend

By Rupam Jain, with additional reporting by Manoj Kumar, Mayank Bhardwaj; Editing by Tom Lasseter and Nick Macfie 10 November 2017 NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India plans to spray water over its capital, New Delhi, to combat toxic smog that has triggered a pollution emergency, officials said on Friday, with conditions expected to worsen over […]

The India-Bangladesh wall: Lessons for Trump – Border fences are not particularly effective, but they are enormously expensive

By Sudha Ramachandran 15 February 2017 (The Diplomat) – United States President Donald Trump’s plans to build a “great, great wall” along the United States’ 3,200 kilometer long border with Mexico to keep out what he calls “criminals, drug dealers, [and] rapists” is hardly a new idea. Several other countries, many motivated by Islamophobia, have […]

Poorest countries suffer most from global warming

By Martin Wolf 18 October 2017 (The Irish Times) – Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”This sentence from the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is the philosophy of Donald Trump’s administration. Thus, […]

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